The impact of service quality on customer satisfaction, a study on Tanjung Offshore Services / Alia Zafira Saleh

As market growth slows or as markets become more competitive and level of switching costs increase, firms are more likely to attempt to maintain their market share by focusing on retaining current customers. Service Quality has been advocated as an easier and more reliable source of customer satisfa...

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Main Author: Saleh, Alia Zafira
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business and Management 2007
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/18963/2/18963.pdf
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description As market growth slows or as markets become more competitive and level of switching costs increase, firms are more likely to attempt to maintain their market share by focusing on retaining current customers. Service Quality has been advocated as an easier and more reliable source of customer satisfaction. This research utilized a convenience methodology to improve customer satisfaction, and the researcher has helped the firm identifying the factors that contribute to retain customer and initiate a variety of strategies to accomplish this objective. Five dimensions that contribute to retain customer that had been identify by researcher consists of tangible, responsiveness, reliability, assurance and empathy. The findings highlight that all the five dimensions do contribute to customer satisfaction and the firm should take action and focus more on these five contribution factors or dimensions in order to retain and keep their customers loyal. The researcher also identified the causes that lead to the decrease of the firm customer retention rate and had come out with few recommendations. The recommendations that can be taken into consideration such as formation of customer-contact-employee relationship, effective communications to build trust and establish customer loyalty programme. By implementing these three recommendations, the researcher optimism that it will help the firm to better upgrade its performance and any area that is not running well in their management for future use.
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spelling oai:ir.uitm.edu.my:189632023-07-26T03:37:02Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/18963/ The impact of service quality on customer satisfaction, a study on Tanjung Offshore Services / Alia Zafira Saleh Saleh, Alia Zafira Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling Consumer satisfaction Customer services. Customer relations As market growth slows or as markets become more competitive and level of switching costs increase, firms are more likely to attempt to maintain their market share by focusing on retaining current customers. Service Quality has been advocated as an easier and more reliable source of customer satisfaction. This research utilized a convenience methodology to improve customer satisfaction, and the researcher has helped the firm identifying the factors that contribute to retain customer and initiate a variety of strategies to accomplish this objective. Five dimensions that contribute to retain customer that had been identify by researcher consists of tangible, responsiveness, reliability, assurance and empathy. The findings highlight that all the five dimensions do contribute to customer satisfaction and the firm should take action and focus more on these five contribution factors or dimensions in order to retain and keep their customers loyal. The researcher also identified the causes that lead to the decrease of the firm customer retention rate and had come out with few recommendations. The recommendations that can be taken into consideration such as formation of customer-contact-employee relationship, effective communications to build trust and establish customer loyalty programme. By implementing these three recommendations, the researcher optimism that it will help the firm to better upgrade its performance and any area that is not running well in their management for future use. Faculty of Business and Management 2007 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/18963/2/18963.pdf The impact of service quality on customer satisfaction, a study on Tanjung Offshore Services / Alia Zafira Saleh. (2007) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/18963.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling
Consumer satisfaction
Customer services. Customer relations
Saleh, Alia Zafira
The impact of service quality on customer satisfaction, a study on Tanjung Offshore Services / Alia Zafira Saleh
title The impact of service quality on customer satisfaction, a study on Tanjung Offshore Services / Alia Zafira Saleh
title_full The impact of service quality on customer satisfaction, a study on Tanjung Offshore Services / Alia Zafira Saleh
title_fullStr The impact of service quality on customer satisfaction, a study on Tanjung Offshore Services / Alia Zafira Saleh
title_full_unstemmed The impact of service quality on customer satisfaction, a study on Tanjung Offshore Services / Alia Zafira Saleh
title_short The impact of service quality on customer satisfaction, a study on Tanjung Offshore Services / Alia Zafira Saleh
title_sort impact of service quality on customer satisfaction a study on tanjung offshore services alia zafira saleh
topic Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling
Consumer satisfaction
Customer services. Customer relations
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/18963/2/18963.pdf
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